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		<title>&#8220;God make me more persuasive&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/god-make-me-more-persuasive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;Eloquence may dazzle and please, but holiness convinces.&#8221;   
                                    Dr. Doriani quoting R. L. Dabney at the Westminster Seminary Preaching Conference

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		<title>Leap to Hell over my body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they perish, let
them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned
and unprayed for.&#8221;
Charles Spurgeon
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		<title>Just stop it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not know of a single scripture—and I speak advisedly—which tells me to take my sin, the particular thing that gets me down, to God in prayer and ask him to deliver me from it and then trust in faith that he will.Now that teaching is also often put like this: you must say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=60&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther on preaching as the channel of forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from Martin Luther&#8217;s handling of Matthew 9:1-8- the healing of the paralytic.  Luther discusses forgiveness with great skill and beautiful imagery that is worthy of meditation, but this section should be of particular interest to pastors as a reminder of the importance of our role as preachers of the Word.  Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=59&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this brief reflection by Philip Ryken on the Naomi Wolf&#8217;s essay on the effects of pornography- it is well worth the 1 minute it will take you to read it.
http://reformation21.org/Reformation_21_Blog/Reformation_21_Blog/58/pm__114/vobId__6616/
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		<title>Henry on Proverbs 17:7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Henry has this to say about Proverbs 17:7 (Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend):
&#8220;This is designed, 1. To recommend to us this expedient for sharpening ourselves, but with a caution to take heed whom we choose to converse with, because the influence upon us is so great either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=57&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our great hindrance</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/our-great-hindrance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Self-dependence is the grand hindrance of our efficiency&#8230;.to lean upon human instrumentality, instead of Almighty power- is like Elisha trusting in his staff, instead of his Master&#8230;.We are ready to say of some bright momentary prospect- &#8216;This same shall comfort us concerning our work:&#8217; so that, when &#8216;we see not our signs:&#8217; or when, &#8216;as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=56&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Pagitt&#8217;s &#8220;different Gospel&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/doug-pagitts-different-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Team Pyro comes through.  Check out this as a follow up to the Doug Pagitt/John MacArthur debate on yoga.  What I said in an earlier post about emergent being today&#8217;s liberalism seems too mild once you read what Pagitt says here:  http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2007/09/different-gospels.html
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		<title>Good and useful men</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this this morning from the Founders Ministries Blog (www.founders.org/blog) and it was very encouraging to me so I wanted to share it with you.
For the full blog entry, go to   http://www.founders.org/blog/2007/09/in-praise-of-bivocational-pastors.htmlIn his Lectures on the History of Preaching (50-51), John Broadus quotes a passage from John Chrysostom &#8220;in which he bestows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=54&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga and Emergent Church as the new liberalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen the CNN exchange between John MacArthur and Doug Pagitt, do yourself a favor and check it out.  It has been all over the place, but the most helpful spot to see it is at the Pyromaniac&#8217;s blog here:  http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2007/09/biblical-propositions-yoga-positions.html
What is great about their posting is that they have an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=53&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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